Sr. Analyst, Sales & Operations Planning, Holistic

Sr. Analyst, Sales & Operations Planning, Holistic

Work Mode: Hybrid

Location: Hybrid - Kohler, WI

Opportunity

Lead and support projects, process improvements and reporting activities within the Sales and Operations Holistic Planning process for KBNA across all categories and sites, including S&OP reconciliation, balancing short term vs long term demand and supply projections, risk analysis, capacity site reviews, and ensuring forecast attainment.

As needed, provide oversight and delivery of projects and business enablement within S&OP Holistic Planning and KBNA Supply Chain. Assembles and leads project teams, identifies the appropriate resources needed for project execution, and develops schedules to ensure timely completion of projects, establishes KPIs for determining project success, while controlling project cost, quality, schedule, and scope across multiple business functions.

Specific Responsibilities

• Prepare for, engage, support, and facilitate key S&OP meetings, including weekly sales updates, monthly dollarization, shipment forecasts, and reconciliation meetings. Ensure content drives alignment and consensus within finance, demand and supply, and site planning teams.
• Organize, report and lead site forecast reviews with key fulfillment, logistics, supply, and financial stakeholders. Partner with logistics team to ensure space and warehouse capacity align with the S&OP plan.
• Partner with demand teams to validate and analyze the demand plan, while identifying risk and opportunity in the short- and long-term product demand strategies
• Support supply planners via demand analysis and dollarization validation, to help ensure the correct signal is driving supply planning and shipment forecast projections.
• Analyze site performance vs forecast KPI’s to identify trends, and coordinate root cause identification and drive completion of corrective actions.
• Ability to complete ad hoc data analysis and scenario planning with minimal direction.
• Drive systematic improvement in the supply chain through application of KBNA standards, best practices, advanced analytics, and technology.

Skills/Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in supply chain analytics or related experience that brings knowledge of S&OP and end to end supply chain management.
• Position requires a B.A. or B.S. degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Mathematics, or a related field.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills are essential. Ability to interact efficiently and engage with respect, aligned to Kohler’s values. Professional oral and written communication skills are critical to success.
• Must be capable of working with different functional areas across supply chain (demand, supply, distribution, and finance)
• Strong analytical skills, including use of Excel and PowerBI   
• SAP APO or IBP Demand Planning skills or similar forecasting and planning system knowledge, or ability to quickly leverage SAP and other key business systems.
• Ability to communicate with and present to all levels of the organization.

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